Community Corner
5 Things To Do Today: Free Movie Screening for Kids, Constrained Writing and More
Carroll Gardens-area subway, alternate side and event information you won't want to miss.
1. Entertain the tots. Each Wednesday you can mingle with other parents and their youngsters (toddlers through age 5) during a short movie and play at the local library. Carroll Gardens Library, 396 Clinton Street between Union and Sackett Streets, 3:30 p.m., Free.
2. Constrain your writing. Come again? The Writhing Society, led by Wendy Walker and Tom La Farge, meets weekly at Proteus Gowanus to practice and discuss the techniques of constrained writing. The process is loosely defined thusly: "Constraints are rules, specific and arbitrary, that drive you to say what you hadn’t expected to say in ways you never would have chosen to say it. Constrained writing always involves a collaboration of languages: yours and someone else’s." Sounds exciting to us! Proteus Gowanus, 543 Union Street at Nevins Street, 7:00 p.m., $5.
3. Join the club. Big City Folk presents the Wednesday Night Song Club at Ceol, hosted by award-winning Irish Songwriter Niall Connolly. This invite-only open mic features a diverse range of Brooklyn, national and international songwriters. Ceol, 191 Smith Street between Baltic and Warren Streets, 7 p.m., Free.
4. Find out if your train is running ... The F and G trains will be skipping Smith-9th St, 15th St-Prospect Park and Fort Hamilton Parkway, per usual. Jamaica-bound F trains will run via the M from 47-50 Streets to Roosevelt Avenue. Coney Island-bound F trains run via A the from W 4 St to Jay St-MetroTech, according to the MTA.
5. ... And if you have to move your car. No. Alternate side parking has been suspended in observance of Ash Wednesday, according to the NYCDOT.
About this column: Carroll Gardens information and events you won't want to miss, including the subway and alternate side info each day.
